The assessment for Denver Public Schools American History Unit offers your students the opportunity to make a podcast.
What IS a podcast?
The New Oxford American Dictionary defines podcast as “a digital recording of a radio broadcast or similar program, made available on the Internet for downloading to a personal audio player.” In other words, it’s a digital audio file that’s created, shared, and heard.
To create a podcast, your students will use a free software program called "Audacity." Audacity simply records sound--the sound is your students' voices speaking their script.
Below are screencasts that will walk you through how to use Audacity to make a podcast. Simply click on the link and watch the video on how to make a podcast with Audacity. If a window pops up asking you which application to use to view this screencast, choose nothing and click "OK."
What IS a podcast?
The New Oxford American Dictionary defines podcast as “a digital recording of a radio broadcast or similar program, made available on the Internet for downloading to a personal audio player.” In other words, it’s a digital audio file that’s created, shared, and heard.To create a podcast, your students will use a free software program called "Audacity." Audacity simply records sound--the sound is your students' voices speaking their script.
Below are screencasts that will walk you through how to use Audacity to make a podcast. Simply click on the link and watch the video on how to make a podcast with Audacity. If a window pops up asking you which application to use to view this screencast, choose nothing and click "OK."
Other Audacity Tutorials
A short tutorial that provides an overview of using Audacity
A tutorial that focuses on Audacity's tools
Particularly note the section in this tutorial "Bouncing Two Stereo Tracks to One Mono Track"
This is an important tutorial on "Changing Audio Sample Rate in Audacity"
This is a movie on using Audacity to create a podcast from a number of recordings
A recommended tutorial from Transom
An excellent screencast on the use of Audacity
TO DOWNLOAD AUDACITY:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/
You will also need to download the lame file:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=install&item=lame-mp3